These models aren’t as different as they first appear. Just different formulations of the concept of cognitive volatility.
In either case, you want to exert your effort on the largest portion of the population most likely to change in the most significantly beneficial way (for some balancing of optimality). The clever point about re-envisioning these fence-sitters with the second model is that they may not be sitting on any fence you recognize, but the fact remains they are on an unstable equilibrium in the cognitive/social space.
Of course the hard problem is how do you measure the critical susceptibility to having minds changed as a group, before it happens?
The clever point about re-envisioning these fence-sitters with the second model is that they may not be sitting on any fence you recognize, but the fact remains they are on an unstable equilibrium in the cognitive/social space.
It might be a stable equilibrium before the introduction of your opinion.
Now if you have opinions that are specially geared to be earth-shattering revelations to your target audience, that is an entirely different matter, with its own set of problems.
These models aren’t as different as they first appear. Just different formulations of the concept of cognitive volatility.
In either case, you want to exert your effort on the largest portion of the population most likely to change in the most significantly beneficial way (for some balancing of optimality). The clever point about re-envisioning these fence-sitters with the second model is that they may not be sitting on any fence you recognize, but the fact remains they are on an unstable equilibrium in the cognitive/social space.
Of course the hard problem is how do you measure the critical susceptibility to having minds changed as a group, before it happens?
It might be a stable equilibrium before the introduction of your opinion.
Not if you consider opinions to be perturbations.
Now if you have opinions that are specially geared to be earth-shattering revelations to your target audience, that is an entirely different matter, with its own set of problems.